IDRAC - for all those times when you don't want to be in the datacentre

If you have a Dell server, get the iDRAC enterprise licence and get the iDRAC plugged in. It's awesome. It has alerts, monitoring, status information, remote control and more. In short, it is exactly what you need for those on site admin tasks that you don't want to be onsite for (well, okay, you still need to go onsite for disk and network cable changes!)

What are the pros?

Intuitive interface
Easy to configure
Really good for out of band management
Has saved my skin a few times

What are the cons?

Great to get all the information you can about your Dell server

Good product, works well, never had an issue with installing or using it. Let's you know about the status of and in limited fashion manage you Dell hardware, as much as you could possible be remotely. Especially if you didn't pony up for an iDrac license this is a must have.

Fantastic utility for seeing pretty much all the information you can think of regarding your local server in one place.
It's got a great web GUI which is clear to read and understand, and can quickly show you any firmware or drivers which are out of date...shame it doesn't give you a download option so you can quickly update the firmware/drivers without then manually going to the Dell support website.

Tool works very well for providing array information, drive health, and system health altogether while tying into AD and using SSO. The last version I've used is 2003, so I look forward to seeing what newer versions have built upon that and improve. Only complaint is its quirkiness to setup.

If you haven't looked at this yet you should run and install it right now. OpenManage Essentials. Not sure why it hasn't been put up here yet but it lets you centrally monitor and even control your servers and essential network equipment. Way to go Dell....it's about time that you came up with something to compete with Director and Insight. It's a little lacking on the documentation and not really sure what the WMI is even looking. Seems like if you have OMSA installed your golden.